If this giant post doesn't go through I'm going to cry
As usual cannot do a good ending to long fics.
Did too much research on ancient swineherd life, ancient Greece food clothing etc, and textile production. Saturnalia is a Roman winter festival but the Greeks had a summer festival. At least the Athenians did not sure about Ithaca. They're the ones with most archaeological remains iirc so they shape a lot of what we picture as ancient Greece
I went through your romuluscaps to see whose costumes had the big fuckoff armholes and it was enslaved Silvia and s1 Enitos + Lausus lol Yemos had closer fitting ones. Also his might be sleeveless unlike Enitos'? Idk it was just quick check
all sent! putting response under cut!
honestly was gonna be away from here, but then i saw this and said OKAY well let's go over THIS beautiful piece and then get back to work bc
PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK PEAK
I was in love at first marigold scent and sleepy yemos 💕
i'm not sure how you overall felt tackling eumaeus pov jo, but I think you nailed it and I fucking love it! his energy is there, and the bits of trying to uphold some propriety felt particular apt, i'd almost forgotten how kinda proper he tries to be in the film lol, he's almost like a fancy downton butler which i know bc of the reality upbringing and all that entails, but from a surface comedic view i can look at it tickles me
i'm charmed but also giggling at eumaeus's old man attitude, i'm calling irl claudio and telling him his 51 year old ass is being put to pasture by you lol jk, i know the workload in his life called for a lot, but on a selfish later i could only appreciate his long walks contributing to the double cheeked up of it all 🍑
and in a background thought way i luv how it contrasts with ertas, who would've been lifting buckets shirtless to get YEMOS hot and bothered until ertas pins him on the forest floor, oh domestic ertas flirting and courting and winning i need you...
the whole water bit lmao, yemos having had to wash his pits and so on with enitos's dirty water and unknowing eumaeus is like 'this diva....'
yemos bulging arms carrying the water tho, oh the bathing wet body eumaeus looks away from, oh the not shy revealing thighs and more of it all, pretty pretty sights hoLY
yemos not being shy and keeping the t/ts unbinded is so goated, he's so elite Cuntdrea character, and eumaeus is so fcking lucky...kleanis wanting to ogle i know that's right...
ps is kleainis, priam, desta and so on other names form the tale, ocs, or the other movie characters? I don't think i saw any name matches when i checked the cast like philoetius or hippotas, so i was just curious!
eumaeus having adjusted the veil for yemos's spinning ❤️
the wandering pig bit was fckin funny, i'm endeared picturing andrea's particular vocal deliveries of that kind with yemos's body language, pebble kick and all <3
luuuuuv their little lunch date, yemos going IN at mealtimes lol-i wonder if eumaeus would withold much for his food given his plush body, snatched as his waist area is, but perhaps food hands on well enough in a balance that keeps him from being emaciated (and bc i'm me it tickles me thinking eumaeus would be self concious to appeal that way and meanwhile yemos is inwardly sweating remembering rutting against ertas's fat fckin belly while ertas was mouthing hit t/ts lmao)
i'm so fond of this yemos's knack with clothes and such, eumaeus fascinated the more he sees and learns had my heart
respect the bits of the story addressing what eumaeus went through, his feelings of it, how yemos is working with it-u know me, i always go for a more sensual indulgent option, but for what the tale has become here, i enjoy how you frame the journey!
that said, perhaps no surprise i was a little on fire over yemos's stares and attempted bedroom moves haha, read and reread the possessive leg, t/ts against the back, c/ck against the peach and the groping bc of fcking course i did lol (red pomegranate lips and kohl eyes ohhh)
but that's not to suggest i didn't concede it was a good point for yemos to read the situation and back off, good on him!
if suitors so hot, why so evil, steven i think we're gonna have to kill these guys damn.meme/ yemos telling odysseus okay good with the bow, but there's a queue for killing these guys mkay i promised my guy a lot of literal ripped hearts for my guy, odysseus: i can respect that
not yemos singing the song and forgetting enitos is gone!!!!!!!! T-T
oh the scar stroking oh the gift giving oh the mother remembering oh the brother dandelion remembering ohhhhh!!!! T-T !!!!!!!
"Enitos is the stronger one, but Yemos is sweeter. Even as babies, you can tell he loves his brother." GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eumaeus: i can never be with him bc even if enitos was his brother he who could love an old man like me?
yemos: please check my history and credentials, I am a certified! old! man! fcker!!!!!
I fckin loved this jo, I'm fckin obsessed, and eumaeus/yemos if it wasn't S tier andrea ship before certainly is now with this sealing the deal!!!!!!!
gyaaadddddd, now i need my spare moments to think how we get to point a to point laying on yemos's t/ts and then some!!!!!!
certified rereadable jo, i'll be carrying this ficlet in my heart <3
Iirc Yemos pronounced Wiros more like Wi-ruh so what if Yemos can't quite say Eumaeus's name right, and Eumaeus loves the way Yemos' Latin tongue twists his name into like Eumaeoh(s)
ah this was the spelling i was going for in the other ask, if we're trying to pronounce the same thing as i believe we are (you-may) (I forget yeh-meh was how enitos said yemos name shame on me 😩)
Yemos' hair growing long in Ithaca and Eumaeus carves him a simple bone comb in the beginning, then a more elaborate one as their relationship deepens
Eumaeus wants to help Yemos deal with his long hair, but his attempts at braiding were painful to see and have on the head, so they settle for Eumaeus helping Yemos brush his hair
Wait Eumaeus making Yemos a boar bristle brush, those are good for the hair
gyah, this was one of my favs lingering in my askbox 💕
eumaeus fingers combing after the brush and tempted to just hold the tresses
feels like somehow this moment could be after a long time of yemos not rly calling eumaeus by name, and then just softly saying you-may or yeh-may for the first time for his name 📝
Eumaeus noticing Yemos has been acting weird and distracted for a few days, his scent going haywire, and he dodged Eumaeus' every attempt to ask questions and worrying Eumaeus, then he sees Yemos start keeping the thread he makes instead of trading them
It clicks when Eumaeus sees Yemos weaving swaddling clothes
(not to self to apply how a nesting/wanting a baby yemos would make ertas insane with want he wants to cream yemos stupid and pregnant📝📝📝📝📝)
yemos near neighboring mothers that all this makes his milk come in and he's so needy he's eager to assist with feedings which eumaeus suppresses noticing until he sees yemos near the commune of mothers with volodomyr's group as v looks unashamedly at yemos help feeding there
What if Yemos was rescued by Eumaeus like Odysseus
Like I've been trying to think of how exactly Eumaeus could afford yemos at the market. Maybe he asked Telemachus to buy Yemos for him? So what if Yemos jumped off the slaving ship first chance he got, but was swept away by the ocean currents.
And when he washes up a slaver caught him. Eumaeus negotiates, he's a rebellious almost dead slave, most of the island cant talk to him, and he got yemos for cheap. Nursed him back to health
Someone makes a joke about how Eumaeus always seems to be rescuing washed up people, 'this one isn't as pretty as Yias though'
alternatively, if less complication is the goal, he could always wash up with eumaeus finding him, nursing him, and making a panicked story of acquiring a slave when asked, and that's why yemos has to act like one a bit in public. Kinda helps give reason anyone would give up yemos for cheap when depraved minds are willing to deal with the violence to get that chest. speaking of, that would give reason for yemos to cover/bind (?) his chest in public to avoid the gaze of the suitors and others. not to say they wouldn't be uninterested in beautiful yemos anyway, but i think the huge public t/ts would be like a dare that logistically yemos would have to avoid while he's trying to lay low.
Yemos killing a suitor that once forced Eumaeus, ripping his heart out, and offering it to Eumaeus, who was horrified and shook his head
Yemos shrugs, takes a bite, then spits it out. Smtg smtg the worst kind of insult for the children of rumia idk
They disguise it as two suitors killing each other or wolf attack or throws it to the pigs or even throws the body into the sea. Maybe Yemos ropes that peasant man who was taken instead of his woman, like I saved you, you better lie your ass off you hear me? You do not argue against a cannibal man with blood on his hands and face, and the peasant agrees to provide an alibi
Hmm Eumaeus slaughtering the corpse eating pigs and serving them to the suitors next time they want pork. Making sure to tell Penelope and Telemachus to avoid tonight's meat. Would the other suitors notice if Yemos and Eumaeus dispatches them one by one?
of all things here the inspired image of a terrified eumaeus refusing to eat the heart as you said, but then kissing yemos's bloody lips 📝
